How to Hide the “Creation Club News” Spam in Fallout 4

A very long time in the past in the far-off 12 months of 2015, Bethesda tried to copy the unimaginable number of consumer mods for its huge RPG franchises, and become profitable off of them. It was a foul concept, so that they stopped doing that. In 2017, Bethesda had the very same concept, and it’s nonetheless unhealthy, however this time they don’t appear to be listening to anybody.

So now we’ve obtained paid mods from the “Creation Club” in Fallout 4, and shortly to come in the Skyrim Particular Version. And sure, they’re nonetheless paid mods, regardless of how usually Bethesda screams that they’re not paid mods, as a result of they’re mods which you pay for. Most of the preliminary crop is low-quality recolors of current recreation tools and mods that exist already on the free-to-use third occasion Nexus repository. It’s, in brief, kinda junk.

However whether or not or not you truly need to use Bethesda’s Creation Club paid mods system, it’s going to seem in your recreation. In Fallout 4, it brings alongside what can solely be described as a “Spam Field” in the fundamental menu, telling you to take a look at the Creation Club and hopefully spend some cash on the paid mods therein. Fortunately, there’s a approach to make it disappear from the PC model of Fallout 4.

Are you able to guess what that approach is? I guess you possibly can. It’s a mod. And it’s free. Not paid. It’s a mod that you simply don’t have to pay for. It’s not a paid mod, which is what Bethesda is attempting to promote you.

Step One: Obtain the Mod File

Head to this web page on the Nexus Mods repository. When you’re already acquainted with the Nexus and also you’ve put in the Nexus Mod Supervisor, you possibly can simply login to the website and click on “Obtain (NMM)” to begin the program and the set up course of robotically. When you don’t have the Mod Supervisor put in, don’t fear, making use of this tweak manually is straightforward, and we’ll present you ways in the steps beneath. Simply click on “Obtain (Guide)” then “obtain manually” on the subsequent web page.

Step Two: Unzip the Archive

Open your browser’s obtain folder, the place the file “No Extra Creation Club Information[version number].7z is ready. Unzip the archive with no matter your typical unarchiving program occurs to be—in case you don’t know what a 7z file is, right here’s a useful information.

Open the new folder. Choose the un-zipped “Interface” folder, then press Ctrl+C or right-click the file and choose “Copy.”

Step Three: Insert the Interface Folder Into Your Fallout Folder

In your file browser, navigate to the information folder of your Fallout 4 recreation set up. When you haven’t modified the default set up location in Steam, this can virtually definitely be the following location:

C:Program Recordsdata (x86)SteamsteamappscommonFallout 4Data

When you’re operating an older model of Home windows that isn’t 64-bit, it’s the identical folder deal with with out the (x86) specifier.

C:Program FilesSteamsteamappscommonFallout 4Data

After you have the folder open, press Ctrl+V or right-click an empty area and press “Paste.” That’s it, you’re prepared to go.

Open Fallout and start the recreation in the ordinary approach. You’ll be greeted with a fundamental menu, blessedly freed from paid mod spam.

Sadly, this methodology received’t do away with the Creation Club menu merchandise itself, or the bothersome additional information Bethesda forces you to obtain even in case you don’t pay for the mods. We will solely hope that the instant and vehement response the firm has acquired from gamers will discourage it from pulling this sort of transfer in future video games. Sorry, did I say “hope?” I meant “dream.”